This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. Texas Republican Rep. Kay Granger, who co-founded the Joint Strike Fighter Caucus in 2011 to fend off budget cuts to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 weapons system, is the new chair of the committee that doles out hundreds of billions of dollars to fund defense…